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Friday, July 12, 2013

Article publication

My article from earlier this year, "Should Social Security and Medicare Be More Market-Based?" has now appeared in print - at least, I have gotten a stack of reprints - in Volume 21, Number 1 (2013) of the Elder Law Journal, where it appears at pages 87-148.

My working paper version is available here. It should soon be available on-line from the Elder Law Journal here, although as of this moment their last posting is for the articles in the preceding issue, Volume 20, Number 2.

About Me

I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.